?Join distinguished writers and critics as they discuss how
some of the most creative action and hero characters in
literary history emerged out of the fiction magazines printed
on inexpensive pulp paper in the 1920s and 30s. These
specters of German expressionism and shades of French realism
continue to haunt popular culture today. The panel will
explore not only the netherworlds of film noir and crime
novels, but the little-known universe of female pulp authors,
who wrote everything from hard-boiled detective stories to
taboo lesbian pulps. Femmes Fatales, a new series of pulp
reprints from the Feminist Press, provides fresh texts for
the discussion. Morris Dickstein, author, Leopards in the
Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970;
Maria Dibattista, author, Fast Talking Dames; Laura Hapke,
author, Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction;
Geoffrey O'Brien, author, Castaways of the Image Planet:
Movies, Show Business, Public Spectacle; Marijane Meaker,
author, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s; Robert Polito,
author, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson; Luc Sante,
author, Low Life. Cosponsored by The Center for the
Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

3821 - Tuesday, December 2 7-9pm $6;

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